. FiG. 14. Old Hampshire. Pig. 20. Southdown. Fig. 21. Cotswold. Fig. 15.—New Fig. 16. Hampshire. Oxford. fied the uneven and ill-formed epithelium of the old Hamp- shire, which we l^now was a large, bony, big-headed, coarse- wooled sheep that was fed by the Romans in Britain twenty centuries ago, and Avhose wool supplied the first factory erected by them, and worked on English soil. Looking at the fiber we can easily imagine what kind of a sheep this was; that it was not fed as well as the modern sheep, and thus the fiber was uneven in diameter, and rough and harsh and crowded in length. In t
. FiG. 14. Old Hampshire. Pig. 20. Southdown. Fig. 21. Cotswold. Fig. 15.—New Fig. 16. Hampshire. Oxford. fied the uneven and ill-formed epithelium of the old Hamp- shire, which we l^now was a large, bony, big-headed, coarse- wooled sheep that was fed by the Romans in Britain twenty centuries ago, and Avhose wool supplied the first factory erected by them, and worked on English soil. Looking at the fiber we can easily imagine what kind of a sheep this was; that it was not fed as well as the modern sheep, and thus the fiber was uneven in diameter, and rough and harsh and crowded in length. In the study of the effects of crossing sheep for variety of wool we may take as the most prominent examples tliese two moderni breeds, the Hamipshire and the Oxford, two l^inds of sheep classed among the so-called Down breeds. The former originated in a cross of a native white-faced horned sheep kept in the district around the county of Hamp- shire in the south of England by a pure Southdown. This
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